musingsole

Java by Sun back in the day is much more the Coca Cola of languages. Today, maybe C# by Microsoft.

Python's organic growth and adoption is more of an OpenCola model.

Handlers are functions that are part of the app object's state, which alters the app's behavior.

I find that phrasing very fair.

The Handlers implement behavior, sure. But from the perspective of the `app` object, the handler function objects are state. You can tell, because `app` is an instance of the Flask class and the Handlers are added to the instance by way of a function call.

So, Handlers are functions that "handle something", but they are also part of the app object's state, not its behavior.

Envy doesn't create rights for oneself nor does it impute privilege to other

I'm saving this for posterity!

That applies to databases as much as data lakes.

I don't know why it's so hard to get across that data expires in the same way that language changes.

I'm always yearning for a modern StumbleUpon

But that's missing the GP's forest for the trees (pun intended). Liu Cixin's work popularized the theory and phrasing by a massive amount both in comparison to the works that came before and as well as after.

The core point seems to be the flippant assignment of origination irrespective of the scale of contributions.

I've been experimenting a lot with using Jupyter Notebooks (http://jupyter.org/) to get many features of literate programming.

The tooling can be a bit clunky -- though JupyterLab and some plugins can go a long way. Importing notebooks into other notebooks or modules is still kind of weird even with the `ipynb` library.

However, on the otherside of it all, you have a collection of documents that contain documentation, code, and tests, all side by side and storable with proof of past execution.

I'll take this arrangement over someone's unit test and CI suite every day of the week.

Landscaping is a perfect example of how an individual can instantaneously create value in the economy. Banks can create currency, but individuals can magically create value.

How? Decide you want your yard to look different. On a whim. Just decide you want a hill over there with a ring of bushes on top. Congratulations, you have created demand. Pay a local crew to have it done, money flows into the economy, everybody eats.

For greater effect, manufacture a cultural preference so that entire country clubs of people at a time decide that all hills need bonzai trees at their crest -- have all the clubbers pay all the landscaping crews.

A golf course is just a jobs program /s

This is awesome! The IPython prompt was the last place I expected a tool like this, but I'm very excited to use it!

Rainbow tables didn't pan out before; they won't this time either.

Without context, the animation applied to a basic interaction seems like it's getting in the way of User Interaction

But as you hint, in many situations a gradual change of the presentation will allow a user a lot more awareness of the presentation and it's interconnections as a whole.

With scrolling, the idea is usually you're looking at a massive block of text with some images. Why are you scrolling?

Sometimes, you may know exactly where on the page you're trying to go -- in which case lerp will interfere with the interaction.

But in most cases, your using the scroll feature to skim and find the correct place, in which case an animated scroll will serve the user better since the content will have a predictable location throughout the presentation.

Whether or not the button exists in someone's interface is likely separate than the means used by GPT to reason it was the case.

GPT responds that there is an upload button because a lot of interfaces are described that way around the web -- there is not likely a hard reference for its answer in regard to its own interface.

I don't buy it (pun intended).

The challenge of a profitable, open source business model is very real, but also very surmountable -- as evidenced by Prusa's existence in the first place.

Thinking one has to straddle the line between philosophy and pragmatism is a false dichotomy. Open Source is a movement, not a binary.

This response references Thea Flowers' response: https://blog.thea.codes/a-reply-to-josef-prusa/

Prusa exists in what I hope is a time of transition from capital/ownership mindsets into a new type of open market. Wanting to straddle the fence in the name of profits shows once again Prusa only partially understand the movement they benefit from and namecheck frequently.

Comparing Prusa to Marc Jacobs to emphasize the brand over the product is genius.

"regular expression" != "regular language"

I appreciate the academic frameworks that have led to the development of systems, however as a working engineer, ignoring where the rubber meets the road is my entire complaint.

No True Scotsman.

For years I struggled to grok the difference between regular expression and parsing. The conversations I would hear about the topic always left me feeling there must be some interesting meat to the difference...and so I would go read up on it only to find myself with the same problem a few months down the line.

The only difference is layers. Enough regular expression becomes a parser. A slim enough compiler is just a templating engine.

Insisting it's a deep, dark magic and not the advanced application of `str.replace` does the industry a disservice.

If a project calls for 3+ of the same board, then PCBs become worth it quickly, in my opinion.

Even more than aesthetics, I've had a few projects where an unpopulated board outlives any other remnants of a project and so becomes the last remaining document/example of how it was done.

For prototyping, RaspberryPis will get you where you're going faster than anything else. The Linux environment gives you speed of development. The form factor let's you toss it in a parts bin. The GPIO gives you direct, easy access to the physical world.

After prototyping, redeveloping for a different platform is often not worth the cost. If you didn't use the GPIO, switch to a NUC or similar. Or don't.

Raspberry Pis are in data centers now, occupying server racks. Don't fight the signal; retransmit.

Not typically

CS programs are designed with broad input from a wide assortment of interest groups -- specific industries or companies or whatever. Different universities tend to emphasize the "foundations" of the industries physically nearby. Sometimes this is done intentionally to create a pipeline of labor to large companies that need it -- more often it's subconscious osmosis.

There's a bell curve to aptitude and drive to learn. The curriculum at any university reflects the intersection of that median in the student body with a social narrative.

People like dreaming more than they enjoy actualization. Pulling dreams into reality is hard work and necessarily heartbreaking as reality and dreams don't match.

I used to take the cabinet doors off all my rentals -- less for me keeping track of what was where and more for guests so they didn't need to ask where anything was.

I imagine these days it would just have a few power transistors and an inscrutable ASIC

That just make an it easier to replace with an ESP32 and flashing OpenWashingMachine

Are you mistaking restaurants for hedge funds?

Franchises never have much margin to begin with -- they're mostly real estate vehicles. It's why a Chipotle will operate at 20% staff like it's a normal thing.

A local restaurant might actually be profit seeking enough to have optimized a return on the food/drink service -- but that's usually reflected in the servers wages already.

This or that restaurant or this or that regional manager could give them a fair wage

They do... usually by way of appropriate schedules or other logistics of the job which delivers access to the richest streams of tips. This is why the good servers follow them.

The conversation around tips and it's appropriateness is largely blind to the other aspects of the hospitality industry. Real people with real jobs responding to real stimulus -- it takes coordination on many axes to deliver a golden hour. The conversation of where on the scale from 0-20% to fall is all bourgeois.

U.S. tipping doesn't make any sense from a European point of view.

Because you're thinking about it too hard or otherwise unaware of the inner turnings of the system.

Where it matters, servers are almost their own industry, swapping gigs at this or that restaurant to work with this or that regional manager. The restaurant gets their money from the bill, the server gets their money direct from the customer they helped.

My server goes to a different restaurant -- I go there and keep getting awesome service.

This type of arrangement gets really close to a guildhouse/coop more than a franchise.

In places with less stable relationships (tourist restaurants), asking for tips might be a predatory thing -- or you can see it as paying it forward: "hey person working to get people their demands in a moments notice, I hope this tenner will help you hold that smile in the face of another consumerist monster. Thanks for being a human."

Decisions made for the convenience of the owner, not the customers nor the employees.

Layoffs and paycuts don't bode well for any interesting work or keeping people in a mood where they are likeable.

The handwringing and psuedo-calculus of cuts does further damage to any interesting work.

Can't do interesting work when instead you have to fill in for a job previously covered by a junior engineer.

It'd take a hell of a company culture to fight these trends.

And humans don't just produce CO2. They shed everything from dust to viruses.

Really, humans are the health concern we should be paying more attention to.